Quotes from St. John Chrysostom
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
- St. John Chrysostom
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
- St. John Chrysostom
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
- St. John Chrysostom
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
- St. John Chrysostom
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
- St. John Chrysostom
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
- St. John Chrysostom
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- St. John Chrysostom
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
- St. John Chrysostom
The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.
- St. John Chrysostom
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
- St. John Chrysostom
To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.
- St. John Chrysostom